"We need a tiger in our tank
Turkey should not be kept out of the EU because of Cyprus
Peter Preston
Monday December 20, 2004
The Guardian
For three long, fruitless decades, Cyprus has been a hook on the door that leads to Europe, a peg on the periphery of our concerns. But now, suddenly, ecstatic crowds greet Turkey's prime minister as he returns to Istanbul from two tough days in Brussels - and Europe itself hangs from that hook.
What almost wrecked the celebration of Turkey's EU negotiation, leaving Messrs Blair, Schr�der and Chirac looking pretty silly? Cyprus. What rickety compromise cooked up thereafter could collapse at any point over the next 10 years, leaving a trail of bitterness behind it? Same answer. Forms of words won't serve here. Only solutions matter. "
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